Download or read book American Literacy written by Jack North Conway and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Amerigo Vespucci's Cosmographiae Introductio (1507), this work examines 50 such books and their authors that are essential to understanding America's character. While many of the titles are familiar to most readers--Thomas Paine's Common Sense--others are familiar but less expected--Frank Norris' The Octopus.